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Archive of posts published in the category: Sports

When Data is the Dumbest Sh-t You’ve Ever Heard

Data is used to measure and compare human beings in many ways in the world…

Sports Viz: The Top International Goal Scorers

Hi all, It has been a while since I posted here. This one’s just for…

How to Make a Scatterplot with Marginal Histograms in Tableau

First, apologies for the blog post drought! It was that kind of summer. It’s good…

Kobe Vs. Jordan: what defines a “career”?

Since Kobe Bryant surpassed Michael Jordan in “career points” scored this past Sunday, much has…

Dimension Line Charts: a (slight) variation on arrow charts

Arrow charts are an effective way of showing how values changed from one point in…

An NBA Fantasy Dashboard

2013 was an amazing year for me, in many ways. One thing that happened to…

Slopegraphs in Tableau

Andy Kirk of Visualising Data recently blogged and tweeted about his addiction to slopegraphs. In…

A Tribute to Fearless Felix

It was hard not to watch the coverage of Felix Baumgartner’s record breaking plunge yesterday.…

Medals of Efficiency

The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics starts today in London, and I’m sure we’ll…

Worst Sports Droughts in North America

The Los Angeles Kings ended a 44 season drought by winning the Stanley Cup yesterday.…